So a moose tried to hit me tonight lol
Maybe its not snow I need to worry about but large immobile animals randomly placed in my way...
Tonight I was driving home up provo canyon and I was in the part where there are two lanes just before where the Heber Creeper bridge used to be and I was coming up over a hill so I couldn't see what was ahead of me and all of a sudden there was this HUGE moose standing right in the middle of my lane looking right at me. His shoulders were like 3 feet taller than the top of my car and it scared me really really bad lol. I slammed on my brakes and turned to the left at the same time which caused me to skid across the empty lane and towards the steel barrier on the far left side of the lane, so then I had to turn the steering wheel all the way to the right which then caused me to flip around and then I was facing the cars that were driving behind me and all this happened in like 5 seconds. Luckily the next car behind me was about 100 feet away from me, except I got to watch it hit the moose...which for some reason had never decided to move after seeing me almost wreck trying to avoid it...
I kindof felt like one of those "professional drivers" on those car commercials about driving in the rain or trying to dodge the orange cones lol. Imagine like the craziest 5 second roller coaster ride ever. I was shaking after. I'm pretty sure I left some crazy skid marks, I think they probably look like some type of backwards question mark...I kindof want to go back and see actually...
I feel pretty lucky that there was an empty lane next to me so that I could miss the moose, actually I feel pretty lucky that I even missed the moose it really must have only been inches and my car would not be pretty after hitting a moose, I'm also pretty lucky there wasn't much traffic with me, and I'm pretty lucky that I didn't over correct and flip over or go off the right side of the road which would have meant I would have been in the Provo River.
Basically I feel lucky and I was really freaked out for a while...
Thats all...
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hey now, thats a perfectly legitimate way to make money... if you don't mind needles. and they give you free cookies. so i pretty much think it was the remains of your moose i almost ran over today. he was really squished
that's freaking scary! you probably are a professional stunt driver, actually.
along with mckell, i think i also saw the moose on the way back from provo. it didn't look very lively. lol. but it was extremely large.
Stumbled in, hope you don't mind.
I had a deer commit suicide with my car once. It was awful. Ruined my car too. Very scary thing. You are quite lucky you avoided it.
Hope you have a joyful Christmas!
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